DNP Select Income Fund (DNP) Competitors

FS KKR Capital (NYSE:FSK) and DNP Select Income Fund (NYSE:DNP) are both mid-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, risk, dividends, valuation, earnings and community ranking.

Do institutionals and insiders believe in FSK or DNP?

36.3% of FS KKR Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.5% of DNP Select Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of FS KKR Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of DNP Select Income Fund shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, FSK or DNP?

FS KKR Capital has higher revenue and earnings than DNP Select Income Fund.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
FS KKR Capital	$1.83B	3.29	$696M	$1.88	11.44
DNP Select Income Fund	-$131.43M	-25.23	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do analysts rate FSK or DNP?

FS KKR Capital presently has a consensus target price of $20.06, suggesting a potential downside of 6.71%. Given FS KKR Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe FS KKR Capital is more favorable than DNP Select Income Fund.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
FS KKR Capital	0 Sell rating(s)	6 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.25
DNP Select Income Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Is FSK or DNP more profitable?

FS KKR Capital has a net margin of 29.98% compared to DNP Select Income Fund's net margin of 0.00%. FS KKR Capital's return on equity of 12.31% beat DNP Select Income Fund's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
FS KKR Capital	29.98%	12.31%	5.47%
DNP Select Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Which has more volatility and risk, FSK or DNP?

FS KKR Capital has a beta of 1.25, indicating that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DNP Select Income Fund has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is FSK or DNP a better dividend stock?

FS KKR Capital pays an annual dividend of $2.56 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.9%. DNP Select Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.78 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.3%. FS KKR Capital pays out 136.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer FSK or DNP?

DNP Select Income Fund received 115 more outperform votes than FS KKR Capital when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.80% of users gave DNP Select Income Fund an outperform vote while only 49.69% of users gave FS KKR Capital an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
FS KKR Capital	Outperform Votes 79 49.69%	Underperform Votes 80 50.31%
DNP Select Income Fund	Outperform Votes 194 70.80%	Underperform Votes 80 29.20%

Does the media prefer FSK or DNP?

In the previous week, FS KKR Capital had 8 more articles in the media than DNP Select Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for FS KKR Capital and 1 mentions for DNP Select Income Fund. DNP Select Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.74 beat FS KKR Capital's score of 1.09 indicating that DNP Select Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
FS KKR Capital	4 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	3 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
DNP Select Income Fund	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Very Positive

Summary

FS KKR Capital beats DNP Select Income Fund on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.